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Why The Restart?
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Why does my pc suddenly shut off and restart, for no apparent reason, not to me anyway - as simple as possible please guys, you know what a thicko I am - "we do indeed," grins Lie-in King - Ta Muchly and Take Care.
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There are so many programs running on your computer at any given time (just look at Windows Task Manager to see) and sometimes a particular combination of things just manages to find a bug in one of them. If you're lucky it doesn't have much of an effect; if you're unlucky it crashes the machine. As I said in my earlier post, manufacturers fix known bugs but sometimes the fix can create a different bug which doesn't show up intil a different situation is encountered; with complicated programs it's impossible to test for every situation which might arise.
In my programming days I once had the priviledge of working with a computer genius, a former colleage of Alan Turing. He once said to me "When you've removed 90% of the bugs from a program only 50% remain"; he was absolutely right.
In my programming days I once had the priviledge of working with a computer genius, a former colleage of Alan Turing. He once said to me "When you've removed 90% of the bugs from a program only 50% remain"; he was absolutely right.
How often does this happen? If it is once in a while, say every few weeks or so, it could be a restart after an upgrade. If this is likely you can alter the settings so that it only restarts on your command and not automatically. If the restarts are happening on a regular basis during every session we may need some more detail. Is there a warning or message, is the fan running properly or is the pc overheating. Is there sufficient space available on the drive. etc. etc.
Sometimes external discs can cause trouble if they have a problem - I had one playing up recently and the computer was taking hours to shut down; you have none, so that can't be your problem.
Running a disc-check is harmless if time consuming. Togo is more familiar with Win 10 than I am, so will be able to tell you how to do the check. All discs have spare sectors which can be used to replace bad sectors that the disk-check finds but you need to tell it to do this; all it involves is ticking a box "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". If you do that (one disc at a time) at least it will tell you that your discs are in good shape. Your machine may be unusable whilst running this, particularly when you check the system disc, so be warned; it can also take a fair time, depending how big your discs are.
Running a disc-check is harmless if time consuming. Togo is more familiar with Win 10 than I am, so will be able to tell you how to do the check. All discs have spare sectors which can be used to replace bad sectors that the disk-check finds but you need to tell it to do this; all it involves is ticking a box "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". If you do that (one disc at a time) at least it will tell you that your discs are in good shape. Your machine may be unusable whilst running this, particularly when you check the system disc, so be warned; it can also take a fair time, depending how big your discs are.
Before you get to disc check procedures Woodelf, are you sure that you have not picked up a virus and that your settings are not letting automatic restarts after upgrades or patch installs. You will need to take a looks at Advance Settings in the Windows Updates menu ie the toggle for permission. Then go into "Windows Security", "Virus and Threat Protection", and then "Scan Options" and run "Full Scan". This takes some time but you can use the machine whilst it scans. You can also run Malwarebytes or similar if you have the programme installed. When this all comes back clean is the time for disc checks I think.
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